Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. xv, 574 pages : illustrations, maps, plans; 23 x 28 cm

Subject

1. Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld
2. World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)
3. World's Columbian Exposition
4. City planning > United States
5. City planning > United States > Pictorial works
6. City planning
7. City Planning
8. urban planning
9. City planning
10. Geschichte
11. Verstädterung
12. City planning > United States > History
13. United States
14. USA
15. USA

Genre/Form

1. Pictorial Work
2. illustrated books.
3. Illustrated works
4. Pictorial works
5. Illustrated works.
6. Ouvrages illustrés.

Contents

1. Preface -- European planning on the eve of American colonization -- The Spanish towns of Colonial America -- The towns of New France -- Town planning in the Tidewater Colonies -- New towns in a New England -- New Amsterdam, Philadelphia, and towns of the Middle Colonies -- Colonial towns of Carolina and Georgia -- Pioneer cities of the Ohio Valley -- Planning the national capital -- Boulevard Baroque and diagonal designs -- Gridiron cities and checkerboard plans -- Cemeteries, parks, and suburbs: picturesque planning in the romantic style -- Cities for sale: land speculation in American planning -- Towns by the tracks -- The towns the companies built -- Cities of Zion: the planning of utopian and religious communities -- Minor towns and mutant plans -- Chicago Fair and capital city: the rebirth of American urban planning.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Bibliography: p. 545-562.